Jack in the Box Clown Toy Model

A classic jack-in-the-box caught mid-surprise. The square box has framed panels on each face, a raised pentagon emblem on the front and a crank handle on the side. The lid stands open, and out of the box springs a smiling clown on a coiled spring, with a round nose, big ears, a ruffled collar and a pointed party hat with a pompom. Jack-in-the-box toys go back several centuries in Europe and became a favourite nursery toy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, often with a crank that played…

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